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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, Molecular Biology.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did Barbara McClintock receive her Ph.D.?
(a) 1930.
(b) 1923.
(c) 1935.
(d) 1927.

2. What did Cornell geneticists study instead of fruit flies?
(a) Maize.
(b) Caterpillars.
(c) Mice.
(d) Mosquitoes.

3. A problem that had caught Barbara's fancy was a small body on the end of what chromosome?
(a) Chromosome 3.
(b) Chromosome 6.
(c) Chromosome 9.
(d) Chromosome 2.

4. Gerald Holton commented on scientific imagination and it's importance to how many particular scientists?
(a) One.
(b) Two.
(c) Four.
(d) Three.

5. In 1944, a paper was published demonstrating that what provided the material basis for inheritance?
(a) Fruit flies.
(b) Chromosomes.
(c) Maize studies.
(d) DNA.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the book that was published by Morgan, Sturtevant, Muller, and Bridges?

2. The cytology professor that helped Barbara on Saturdays also did what for her?

3. In Milislav Demerec's first moves in his new position as the Director of the Department of Genetics of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, he gave Barbara a position for what length of time?

4. Max Delbruck first came to the United States from what country?

5. What instrument did Barbara play in a jazz improvisation group?

(see the answer key)

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